Next Wednesday, March 7,  Parent/Teacher Conferences from 4:00-7:00 pm

Moby Max Challenge!!  Lunch on us!

Mrs. Alhassan and Mrs. Edgerton will reward the two students in each class who accumulate the most AT HOME MOBY MAX MINUTES between  2/19/18-3/23/18.   This is a voluntary challenge to encourage students to work on Moby Max a little each night in order to increase their reading and language skills.  Students are encouraged to work in any of the following areas: Vocabulary, Phonics and Spelling Rules, Foundational Reading. Language, Reading Skills Literature, Reading Skills Informational, Reading Level Assessment,  Reading Stories.

The winners will be announced the week before Spring Break and the winning students can choose where they would like to receive lunch from (within reason!) on March 29th.

Good luck!

Welcome back!! Hope you all had a fabulous winter break!  Only 20 more days until spring!!

Monday- Complete double bubble map to prepare for compare/contast essay writing

Tuesday: Write compare/contrast essay based on the setting, characters and theme of Yeh Shen and Sootface

Wednesday: M-Step Practice -evaluating pieces of writing based on a rubric

Thursday: M-Step Practice-essay writing

Friday: M-Step Practice-computer practice

Over winter break students are asked to complete at least 100 Moby Max minutes. They were able to get a jump start on their minutes today following our book checkout time. So just 10 minutes a day (or however they choose to break up their sessions) over the next 9 days and they should easily meet this goal.

This week in language arts, all students should have two new notebooks to begin the 2nd semester.  We will finish up our compare/contrast essays on The Prince and the Pauper, with a lesson on theme and conclusion.  Students will work in class to type their essays in Google Classroom and edit with a peer.  We will begin a unit on fairy tales by reading Yeh Shen this week and Sootface next week.  In the coming week, (date to be determined) students will write a summative compare/contrast essay to compare these two versions of Cinderella.

Monday:  Notebooks due, Type and peer edit first three paragraphs of compare/contrast drafts

Tuesday: Theme lesson, complete graphic organizer on theme for compare/contrast essay, review drama unit vocabulary for quiz Friday

Wednesday: Conclusion lesson, complete graphic organizer on conclusion of compare/contrast essay, type essay paragraphs 4 and 5

Thursday: Begin reading Yeh Shen, complete any unfinished essays, review for vocabulary quiz

Friday: Vocabulary quiz over Drama Unit (see vocabulary below), Continue reading Yeh Shen

DRAMA UNIT VOCABULARY (QUIZ FRIDAY)

drama-a play; story written to be performed by actors

act-a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre

scene-a subdivision of an act

dialogue-the words, speeches or conversation, spoken by characters in a book, movie, or play, or a section of a work the contains spoken words

aside-a brief speech delivered by one person while other people are around but no one can hear that person speaking

cast-characters in the play

musical-a stage, television or film production using popular-style songs

monologue-a speech delivered by one person while the other people or audience members are listening

soliloquy-a speech delivered alone on stage by one character.  The purpose is to reveal the character’s thoughts, motives, feelings and problems to the audience.

stage directions-italicized instructions in a play written to describe the setting, entrances and exits of characters, and how characters look, speak and react to events and others.

NEW SEMESTER=NEW NOTEBOOK

Since we are heading into the 2nd semester, we would like to take this opportunity to get the students re-organized.  Therefore, we are asking students to bring in a new composition notebook by Friday, February 2nd.

WEEK AHEAD

This week we will focus on writing a compare and contrast essay using the graphic organizer we filled out last week on The Prince and the Pauper play versus movie.

Monday: 1/2 Day Watch Hidden Figures (NWEA reward)

Tuesday:  Write essay introduction (Hook, Background Information and Thesis)

January 26, 2018

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This note is to inform you that on Monday, January 29^th, our 6^th graders will be celebrating their recent NWEA test successes, as well as recognizing ongoing social justice activities we’ve been doing during Advisory class and the start of Black History Month by viewing the movie “Hidden Figures”.  The film is rated PG, so we feel an obligation to let you know.  We have asked students to bring this note home and, if you feel they should not view the film, please either email any of their teachers or send this note back indicating same.

Many thanks from the 6^th Grade Teachers

Monday-Students will continue practicing their parts for Reader’s Theater to perform a scene from The Prince and the Pauper for classmates.

Tuesday-Quiz over The Prince and the Pauper play by Mark Twain (see link to The Prince and the Pauper text at the bottom of the page)

Wednesday- Read “Twain’s Tales Transplanted to Today” and complete double bubble graphic organizer comparing Twain’s play to the 2007 movie version.

Thursday -Take notes on the movie version of The Prince and the Pauper to identify elements of the story

Friday-Finish notes and begin compare/contrast outline comparing the movie to the play in preparation for writing a compare/contrast essay

REMINDER:  Friday is a 1/2 day.  Students are dismissed at 11:05